Zorro the gay blade movie
It is hard to reconstruct these fragments from the memories of childhood but as nearly as I can recall, the Zorro craze came after the Davy Crockett craze and before Elvis. Kids made Z marks everywhere &#; on walls, fences, blackboards, and with ballpoints on the shirts of the kids sitting in front of them &#; and my personal notion is that Datsun sells half of their Z-cars to guys harboring sublimated Zorro fantasies.
Here&#;s the curious thing. I think of a lot about Zorro. I even remember that he was once played by Clayton Moore, who got to keep wearing his Lone Ranger mask. But I cannot remember if the Zorro movies were ever supposed to be funny. I assume that the Zorros, played by Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power, and John Carroll, were more or less stern, within the broad outlines of the adventure genre. But what about all the Zorro movies and TV shows that Guy Williams made for Disney? Were we laughing at him, or with him?
I request because I am just as muddled after seeing &#;Zorro, the Gay Blade,&#; which stars George Hamilton in a dual role as Don Diego Vega and his tw
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It is becoming something of a ‘thing’ for film-makers to point out their inspirations by having a movie theatre screening a favourite movie prominently placed within their work. That’s fine if, as in It: Chapter 1, the point is to pin down in time the specific summer that Derry’s local cinema is exhibiting Batman and Lethal Weapon 2. The device feels a bit more laboured when Zack Snyder pans over a cinema displaying Excalibur in Batman Vs Superman, or in the shot below where Todd Phillips recreates the marquee signage from Brian De Palma’s Blow Out in Joker.
Equally prominent in the same shot is Peter Medak’s Zorro The Lgbtq+ Blade, a rather more neglected text that De Palma’s super-effective thriller. Why include George Hamilton’s ‘zany, zexy, spectacular’ parody of the much loved swordsman? Could Arthur Fleck possess been diverted from his murderous purpose if he’d just let a minute spray-tanned self-deprecation good humour into his life? The bottom line is that while real-world movies appear to exist in both DC and Marvel universes, it&#;s kind of rigid to see how Zorro
Zorro, The Gay Blade
These are two descriptions provided by IMDB:
Mexico, s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who rights wrongs and becomes a folk hero to the people of Mexico. When Vega sprains his ankle and cannot figure out how to continue his campaign against the corrupt Captain Esteban, luck stays with Vega when his long-lost twin brother Ramon, who was sent off by their father to the British Royal Navy to make a "man" of him, whom is also flamboyantly gay, and now known as Lt. Bunny Wigglesworth, appears for a visit. 'Bunny' agrees to temporarily take his brother's place as Zorro, but wishes to make some changes. Bunny becomes 'the Gay Blade' in which his new suits are lemon, plum, and scarlet colored, and Bunny insists on using a whip. Bunny also becomes the liaison between Don Vega and the liberal American activist/feminist C
Synopsis
Zexy, Zany, Zensational!
In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his perception of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon.
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El Zorro: The Lgbtq+ Blade, Zorro mezzo e mezzo, Zorro mit der heißen Klinge, La Grande Zorro, As Duas Faces de Zorro, Zorro, a penge, Estos zorros locos, locos, locos, Zorro, ostrá čepeľ, 粉雄佐罗
Theatrical
17 Jul
- USAPG
21 Jan
- Germany6
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25 Mar
- Slovakia12
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